Holder Backs Release of 5,500 Crack Offenders

Eric Holder today told the US Sentencing Commission that he supports a proposal to release thousands of federal prisoners convicted on crack-related offenses. Until Congress changed them last year, federal sentencing guidelines gave crack users—who are predominantly poor and black—much harsher sentences than powder cocaine users. Now, Holder…

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Holder Backs Release of 5,500 Crack Offenders

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